Adding a Field Blur effect

In this movie, we'll begin by organizing our layers and then we'll look at how we…can apply and add some creative blur effects to this portrait project.…All right.…Well, let's start by organizing these layers.…We have a few color adjustments which we've made.…Let's click into the top layer, hold down the Shift key, and…then click into the bottom layer for these color adjustments.…Then let's group these together.…To do that, press Cmd+G on a Mac.…Ctrl+G on Windows.…Then, double-click the group name and let's call this Color and Tone.…Next, we'll click into our Background layer and on the Background layer,…what we're going to do is to copy this.…

One way to do that is to click and…drag the Background layer down to the new layer icon.…Then double-click that layer name and let's call this new layer Blur.…This is where things will get interesting and kind of fun.…So, here we have this Blur layer.…We'll navigate to our Filter pull-down menu.…We're going to go to Blur Gallery and…what we're going to work with is called Field Blur.…

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9/17/2014

Expand your thinking beyond Gaussian Blur. The new set of creative blurring tools in Photoshop CC 2014 allows you to take your photography and digital art to new heights. In this course, photographer and educator Chris Orwig shows how to use the filters in the Blur Gallery (including Field Blur, Iris Blur, Tilt-Shift, and more) in creative projects like these:

Adding movement and energy to photos

Creating illustrations

Enhancing portraits

Building a book cover with typography and blur

Improving color

Crafting an ethereal look

So grab your copy of Photoshop CC and get started taking your imagery to a new creative level.